It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed...
Foster parents
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Auteur:Evans, LissaSommaire: - Auteur:Krentz, Jayne AnnSommaire:
A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack...
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Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime. Today that day has come, and Mike must decide whether to follow the path set before him.
- Auteur:Narsimhan, MahtabSommaire:
When a note placed in a delivered lunch tin (a tiffin) is lost Kunal is seperated from his mother and ends up living as a slave. While learning to deliver tiffins with the help of an old friend Kunal hatches a plant that could reunite...
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Auteur:Lekich, JohnSommaire:Fifteen-year-old Henry Holloway isn't immoral, he's just hungry. His mother died when he was nine, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Andy and his friends, all amiable small-time crooks. When Uncle Andy is sent to prison, Henry takes...
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Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:In "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," Mike Basian was trained to be an outlaw, but he isn't sure he wants to live a life of crime. In "Showdown Trail," Rock Bannon tries to save a wagon of citizens from a smooth-talking con man.
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Auteur:Kimmel, Fran, Hoyt, Tracey, Watton, JonathanSommaire:A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there's no denying it, their family is falling apart...
- Auteur:Tremblay, AnneSommaire:
La colère du lac nous met sur les traces d'une jeune femme de Chicoutimi, Joséphine, à qui l'on confie la tâche de prendre soin d'un marin irlandais de passage. Entre deux attentions destinées à faciliter la rémission du malade,...
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Auteur:Hall, ShyimaSommaire:Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved two hours away to Egypt's capitol city of Cairo to live with a...
- Auteur:Dussault, SandraSommaire:
Johan, 15 ans, plus ou moins laissé à lui-même par son père alcoolique, se retrouve parachuté en campagne sur une ferme qui ne sent pas la rose. Dans sa famille d’accueil peu ordinaire, dirigée par une naine et un géant barbu, il...
- Auteur:Little, JeanSommaire:
Foster child Min Randall's life is not easy as she has to deal with a number of foster parents and Children's Aid, but things take a turn for the better when she finds an injured dog.
- Auteur:Glass, CathySommaire:
When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she...
- Auteur:Francis, PatrySommaire:
Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.
- Auteur:Glass, CathySommaire:
Jackson's mother, Kayla, can no longer cope. Having tragically lost her husband and son, Kayla is crippled with grief and unable to manage Jackson's challenging behaviour. Aggressive, confrontational, and often running away,...
